... a quantity that we all left stuffed. It was all delicious and I could get used to the idea of having tea on a more regular basis once back in the states.

After the garden trip and our tea adventure, we walked back into the hotel room to find our missing companions that had just arrived. Enter: Anne Van (who how you might remember from our past adventures), Tom (Christa's brother), Kristy (Tom’s girlfriend), Horia (we know from the vet ...

Along the path we saw all the things the map said we would: Nine o'clock gun (a cannon which is fired every night at 9pm); Brockton Point, which had a little red and white lighthouse above an archway; and the Girl in a Westsuit statue, which was, as you can probably guess, a girl in a wetsuit, sat on a rock. From here we could see Lion's Gate Bridge, which connected Stanley Park (and therefore Downtown Vancouver) to North Vancouver. ...

... as this was one thing we didn’t do when we were last here in 2001. Check out the bus routes and timetables with the Wi-fi in our room, but manage to just miss the hourly #22 bus through not looking carefully enough at the route. There is a long distance between the bus stops (6 minutes apart by bus, so obviously a lot longer walking). We realise we’ve walked the wrong way looking for the closest stop, so although we had ten minutes to spare, we realised ...